With the primary season getting ready to kick into high gear, the Ron Paul campaign is moving behind the country to cross its T’s and dot its I’s in states where voters have already cast ballots.

Super Tuesday, with its rich booty of GOP convention delegates, is looming–only eight days away.

But before Super Tuesday, the Maine GOP Caucuses takes place in most Maine towns on February 2. (Although technically running throughout Super Bowl weekend, February 1 – 3.)

Ron Paul will be campaigning in Maine tomorrow all day on January 28 in an effort to snag Maine’s 21 Republican delegates.

While the Texas Congressman is meeting and greeting citizens in the Pine Tree State, his campaign will be attending to contests already completed. Paul’s supporters are bankrolling a recount effort in New Hampshire, where there were some election worker mistakes acknowledged.

Meanwhile, the results from the Louisiana Republican Caucus–which took place this past Tuesday–are still clouded with uncertainty.

Paul’s campaign said Saturday that it has filed a complaint with the Louisiana state GOP over what it calls problems and inconsistencies in Louisiana’s process of choosing delegates.

“At this point right now, we’re not going to charge anything nefarious is going on, but it’s a very confusing process, and there have been inconsistencies, and we’re voicing our complaints now” and hoping to work out their concerns with state party leaders, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said.

Messages left for state party leaders Saturday were not immediately returned.

What is happening in Louisiana?

Meanwhile, what’s happening in New Hampshire? What’s the situation in Maine? What states will be voting on Super Tuesday, how many delegates will be up for grabs, and where will Ron Paul be?

It is unfortunate that so many Neo-Con Republicans aren’t willing to sacrifice their candidate for the Presidential win. Ron Paul is the only candidate that will actually be able to win the Presidency because of his ability to swing so many Democrats. Today is a new day. Lets focus on Ron Paul the Republican. Not just Ron Paul the conservative.

LadyHawk said,

in January 29th, 2008 at 10:41 am

I have faxed the following letter to John Lynch, Governor of New Hampshire, and I encourage as many others as possible to edit, modify or rewrite this missive and to do the same. Let’s deluge the Office of the Governor with our requests for honest electoral procedures. . .

This letter is to request your assistance on two counts of malfeasance regarding the New Hampshire Secretary of State and the January 8, 2008 New Hampshire primary elections:

1. Secretary of State, Mr. William Gardner, has apparently lied to media about the Democratic primary hand count, which was requested by Democratic Presidential Candidate, Dennis Kucinich, and which was found to have “significant percentage variances,” from 4 to 10%, in four voting districts in Hillsborough County;

2. The Secretary of State’s office has been conspicuously delaying the GOP recount, which, in relation to variances similar to those cited by Dennis Kucinich, was requested and paid for by Republican Presidential Candidate, Albert Howard.

According to available reports, the Democratic recount was suspended after only a single county had been counted — and not even fully at that — because Kucinich’s “funds ran out.” Mr. Gardner, however, is quoted as saying that Kucinich was “satisfied with the recount” when, in fact, a letter from the Democratic Presidential Candidate to the Secretary of State (copy attached) details a number of the discrepancies revealed by the post-election tallies and requests that the Secretary of State “order a complete and accurate recount of all ballots.”

Kucinich’s references, detailed in his 2-page letter, refer to counts in Nashua Ward 5 where there were variances discovered in the counting as high as 4.9%; in Manchester Ward 5 where tallies varied 10.6%; and in New Ipswich, which saw 7.5% differences in the hand count totals from the original count for one candidate. Those districts were all tabulated on Election Day solely by error-prone, easily hacked, Diebold optical-scan voting systems.
Despite disparities from the original Diebold machine counts found across virtually all candidates and in all wards counted so far, the Secretary of State’s office has been downplaying the miscounts. Moreover, the Secretary of State has failed to supply copies of the Election Day poll books which hold signatures which, if counted, would allow the hand count observers to reconcile whether or not the same number of ballots exist as do voters in each jurisdiction. It’s also been shown that so-called “security seals” used on the transport boxes, as well as to secure the count room where ballots were stored, can be easily peeled away, removed and then easily restored without detection.
Perhaps most importantly, despite a federal law that requires the retention of all election-related media for 22 months following an election, Mr. Gardner has admitted that he has no idea what has become of the sensitive Diebold memory cards which were used in each machine to read ballots and store vote tabulation. Needless to say, totals printed out from data on those cards at the end of polling are used to determine the official state tallies.
The Secretary of State’s statements and behavior in relation to the primary recounts give credibility to the notion that people who live off the public’s tax money will say anything — indeed DO anything — to protect the illusion of honest elections. Claiming that Dennis Kucinich is satisfied with the integrity of the recount, when in fact Kucinich found serious variances with the results from the Diebold machines and requested that the Secretary of State use his constitutional to order a complete and accurate recount of all ballots in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary election, is outright deceit.
Now, on the heels of this blatant misconduct, the Secretary of State’s office appears to be intentionally obstructing and stalling the GOP recount. Initially, although the Kucinich campaign had to pay only $2,000 to initiate the Democratic recount, the Secretary of State required Mr. Howard to produce $55,000 in advance, within 48 hours. On the morning of January 25, 2008, after the GOP recount had been underway for only a single day, Assistant Secretary of State, David Scanlan, brazenly asked Albert Howard for his consent to a recess.

In agreement with Mr. Howard who, in a letter he hand-delivered to the Secretary of State that afternoon, strenuously objected to any suspension of the recount process, I too can fathom no more important business for the State of New Hampshire than the completion of the current recount process. With the entire nation in the early stages of the 2008 Presidential election, the sooner the results of the New Hampshire primaries can be verified and made available, the better it will be for everyone.

Without a doubt, the GOP recount should have been completed ten days ago. Yet, throughout this period of time, it has been becoming increasingly evident that certain individuals in the office of the Secretary of State have likely committed violations of New Hampshire’s election laws, specifically RSA chapters 39 & 40: 660:5: Conduct of recount (“If directed by the Secretary of State, the State Police shall collect all ballots requested from the town or city clerks having custody of them and shall deliver them to the public facility designated by the Secretary of State”). In stark contrast to this section of the law, the ballots have been transported by two men, Butch and Hoppy, who are neither State Police officers nor personnel of the Secretary of State.

This letter is to request that you take the following action:

1. Step in and direct the Secretary of State, William M. Gardner, to complete the GOP recount by the end of this week;

2. Instruct the Secretary of State to conduct a complete and accurate manual verification of the remainder of the ballots in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary election;

3. Direct Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte to open a criminal investigation into likely violations of New Hampshire’s elections laws (e.g., chain of custody of the ballots, slits in the ballot boxes, and unlawful transport and security of the ballots).

We the People CANNOT allow this type of malfeasance to govern our political process. The entire Federal Government rests on the supposition of honest elections. United States citizens surrender half of their money and the lives of their children in a war we know we were lied into because we believe that at some level we are still in control of this country through the ballot box. If the American people ever sincerely doubt that the elections are honest, or that the government is provably a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, we will stop paying taxes and/or stop fighting in the wars. There is no reason for us to give money and our young people’s lives to a conglomerate of people we did not elect.

Nobody wants to risk having the illusion of a government still under control of the people come apart because the entire oligarchy would then unravel. I urge you take the three steps outlined above and to encourage the Secretary of State and Attorney General to use their constitutional authority enforce them. Too many brave American men and women have paid too dearly with their blood and fought with their limbs and their lives for us to allow selfish and/or personal aims to take precedence over the concept of Liberty.

This letter is to urge your immediate action in this matter. Thank you.
Live free or Diebold!

Respectfully,

LadyHawk said,

in January 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am

P.S. You can also send a version of the letter above to New Hampshire Attorney General, Kelly A. Ayotte, and request that she open a criminal inquiry into the actions of the Office of the Secretary of State regarding the recounts requested and paid for by Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich and Republican Presidential Candidate Albert Howard. Irregularities include chain of custody of ballots, tampering with the ballot boxes, inappropriate transportation of ballots, irregular security of the ballots, obstruction of recount, and preferential treatment for the Kucinich campaign in allowing them to pay only the initial fee to begin a recount while requiring Mr. Howard to come up with $55,000 within 48 hours. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s contact info is:

1. David Scanlan – operations guy for the New Hampshire recount. Questions are always referred to Scanlan when you ask about ballot ordering, ballot reconciliation, ballot chain of custody. David Scanlan knew, or should have known, of the fraudulent labels being referred to as “seals.” Why did he permit this?

WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY: “Seal”: something that secures (as a wax seal on a document); a closure that must be broken to be opened and that thus reveals tampering ; a tight and perfect closure

Why is Scanlan blaming the town clerks for seals that do not adhere properly, when it was his own division that provided the seals?

Is it true that Scanlan is the one who attempted to halt the Albert Howard recount, trying to call it off for Tuesday and Wednesday this week?

Why is reconciliation (poll book examination, blank ballot counts, ballot order invoices) not being allowed right now? According to Sally Castleman (EDA), town clerks are saying there were required to send poll books to the secretary of state by Jan. 18. The sec. state’s office has the documents in hand. Why not allow proper reconciliation of the ballots?

2. Do problems originate from the town clerks or “Hoppy & Butch”?

– Did Nashua Town Clerk Paul Bergeron fail to secure his ballot boxes, giving Ward 9 absentee votes to Hoppy and Butch with the lid open? Or did the lid get opened while in the custody of Hoppy and Butch? Who will take accountability for the chain of custody failure for Ward 9 absentees?

– Did Nashua Town Clerk Paul Bergeron provide a large Ward 5 ballot box to Hoppy and Butch with the top torn open, containing only 333 ballots in the large box — with a “seal” on the box that did not match anything on the dispatch sheet? Or did something happen to this box while in the custody of Butch and Hoppy?

– Did the Bedford Town Clerk provide an improperly sealed box, sticking ballots in a medical supply box? If so, why, and if not, how did ballots appear for the recount housed in such a container?

3. Why did Secretary of State Bill Gardner fail to take any steps to mitigate the risks with Diebold 1.94w optical scan system used in New Hampshire? Why did he permit a sole source vendor, LHS Associates, to program all the memory cards, knowing that one of the key people for this vendor is a convicted narcotics trafficker? Why did Gardner agree to let ballots be stored outside the vault on the evening of Jan. 17, 2008?

When Election Defense Alliance’s Sally Castleman visited town clerks on January 23, she was told by a town clerk that Sec. State Bill Gardner had issued a directive advising them not to allow citizens to photograph the ballots boxes before pickup. Does this directive exist in writing?

4. Why did Karen Ladd, of the sec. state’s office, sign for a shipment of ballots from Manchester Ward 11 by herself, while the rest of the shipment was signed for publicly, in front of the building, by David Scanlan and Brian Burford? Why were one-half of Ward 11 ballots delivered six hours after all the other Manchester ballots? Why weren’t they received publicly following the same protocols as the other ballots in the same shipment?

Looking for answers, looking for accountability, and looking for people to pitch in getting and sharing e-mailed or faxed written answers from New Hampshire public officials. Just jump right in. Don’t call, WRITE, get the answer committed in writing, help us get to the bottom of this. You can see details for yourself in the videos linked below.

LAST QUESTION:

Aren’t we all getting sick of lack of consequences for clear breaches in duty to protect and secure the rights of the citizenry?

Larry said,

in January 30th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

I was interested in finding out the status of the GOP recount. Has it even begun? Is it stopped now? When is it scheduled to begin? Thanks

Leave A Reply

Username (*required)

Email Address (*private)

Website (*optional)

Advertisements

BloggerNews On The Air

We are pleased to announce our latest endeavor, Blogger News is now sponsoring some radio shows on Blog Talk Radio. You can check our full schedule, and listen to previous broadcasts here, and we hope that you will join us on the air in this new venture.